TY  - BOOK
AU  - Parak,Gisela
TI  - Photographs of Environmental Phenomena: Scientific Images in the Wake of Environmental Awareness, USA 1860s-1970s 
T2  - Image
SN  - 9783837630855
AV  - TR820.5 .P37 2015
U1  - 779.092 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Bielefeld
PB  - transcript Verlag
KW  - Documentary photography
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Photography in environmental monitoring
KW  - Clarence King
KW  - Cultural History
KW  - Environmental History
KW  - Gifford Hampshire
KW  - History of Science
KW  - John Wesley Powell
KW  - Nature
KW  - Photography
KW  - Rexford Tugwell
KW  - Roy Stryker
KW  - Science History
KW  - Timothy O'Sullivan
KW  - »Documerica«
KW  - HISTORY / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Project "Documerica" — the Record of a Missed Opportunity? Forward --; Between Science and an Ecological Mandate — Photographs of Environmental Phenomena. Introduction --; Collecting Visual Evidence — Nineteenth-century Landscape Photography and the Emergence of Science --; Agricultural Literacy — Visual Empiricism in New Deal Conservation --; Depicting Disaster — Environmental Photography under the Nixon Presidency --; Conclusions --; Abbreviations --; Archival Research and Literature --; Acknowledgement; restricted access
N2  - Since well before the debates about global warming and climate change, images have played an important part in bringing changes in nature and the environment to the attention of the general public. Moreover, most of these images have historic precursors. Gisela Parak illuminates how the synergy of photography and science gave rise to a class of photographs of environmental phenomena in the history of the United States of America, and how these images supported and instructed the scientific pursuit of knowledge, and were furthermore used as a persuasive means for directing public opinion
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839430859?locatt=mode:legacy
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ER  -